Big balls small brain.
Rex
A different world back then. Dan Gurney, among others, didn't wear seat-belts in F1?too many fires during crashes, they preferred to get thrown from the car to being burned. Remember the Halibrand Shrike Indy car, it had a cast magnisium chassis?have you ever seen magnisium burn?
Lets look at early hotrodding. No rollbars, no helmets, drivers driving fuel class cars, wearing nothing but a t-shirt and greasy Levis for protection (that's what I wore at Bonneville 1959). Ever see an early Bell helmet lined with foam rubber? I've worn them at SCTA evens. The later non-Snell Styrofoam were better.
Glenn Leasher was wearing a helmet when he died at Bonnville in Sept 1962. So was Bob Funk when he died at El Mirage in July 1962. I wasn't at the scene when Leasher died, but I was talking to Funk and Jeff Shipley twenty minuets before the crash.
Racing has always been dangerous, so has doing stunts for movies. Stuff happens?I've known many people who have met violent death in both motor-sports and in movies production. And a few that didn't die, through sheer dumb luck.
BTW Happy New Year!